Executive Committee
Atos Origin Executive Committee is composed of:

 Thierry BRETON 
 Chairman and CEO of Atos Origin

 Thierry Breton

Thierry Breton (53) was elected Chairman and CEO of Atos Origin and a member of the Board of Directors in February 2009. He was previously Executive Managing Director and then Vice Chairman of the Bull Group from 1993 to 1996. He later became Chairman and CEO of Thomson from 1997 to 2002 and of France Telecom from 2002 to 2005. From February 2005 to May 2007, Thierry Breton was the French Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry.
 

A graduate of the Ecole supérieure d'électricité "Supelec" of Paris and of the Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale, he has been honored with the prestigious awards of "Officier de la Légion d'Honneur" and "Commandeur de l'Ordre National du Mérite".


 Charles DEHELLY
 Senior Executive Vice President

 Charles DEHELLY

Charles DEHELLY is Senior Executive Vice President of Atos Origin, in charge of the operations. He began his career at Thomson, where he held various department management functions, before joining the Bull Group in 1992 as Executive Managing Director. He was then promoted to President of Bull SA, then CEO of Zenith Data System and finally President of Bull Europe. He returned to Thomson in 1998 and was appointed Chief Executive Officer in 2002.

In 2005, he was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Equant Group, a role that he held until Equant merged with France Telecom. In 2006, he became Chairman of the Arjowiggins Group. He has a degree in engineering from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers.

 Gilles GRAPINET
 Senior Executive Vice President

 Gilles GRAPINET

Gilles GRAPINET (45) is Senior Executive Vice President of Atos Origin in charge of the global functions. A graduate of the prestigious Ecole Nationale d’Administration, he joined the French Inspection Générale des Finances in 1992 before moving to the French tax department in 1996 as Head of the Management Control department, later becoming Director of Information Systems and Strategy. Between 2000 and 2002, he was the director of the Copernic programme which aimed to implement the e-strategy for the tax department and modernise the tax information systems.


In 2003 he joined the private office of the French Prime Minister as advisor for economic and financial affairs and between 2005 and 2007, he was director of the French economy, finance and industry Minister’s private office. In 2007, Gilles joined the Executive Committee of the international banking Group Credit Agricole SA, where he was Head of Strategy before being appointed director of Payment Systems & Services.

 Patrick Adiba
 Head of Rest of World Group business unit and Major Events

 

Patrick Adiba is also in charge of the Olympic Games. Prior to this position, he served as Vice President Human Resources of SchlumbergerSema, and also Vice President and General Manager of its Latin America Branch, for five years. Patrick holds a degree in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering from INSA, Lyon and did an Executive MBA at Stanford University in 2001.

 Francis DELACOURT
 Head of Strategic International Accounts and Deals

 

Francis Delacourt, 54, joined Atos Origin in 1991. He was in charge of various positions in the outsourcing business and led Managed Operations service line. Previously he worked with Dun and Bradstreet Software, McDonnel Douglas Information Systems and Burroughs-Unisys. He is a graduate from ESSEC business school in Paris.

 Marc-Henri DESPORTES
 Head of Global Innovation, Business Development and Strategy

 

Marce-Henri Desportes, 37, was IT Director in BNL, Italian subsidiary of BNP Paribas. Previously he was Deputy Program Director of Copernic at the French Ministry of Finance, and before Head of industrial and technology development of the DRIRE in the Alsace region. He is a graduate from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines.

 Didier Dhennin
 CEO Atos Worldline

 

Didier Dhennin has been appointed CEO of Atos Worldline since 2004. He joined Atos Origin in 1984, and was in charge of Multimedia activities that he launched within the Group. He was previously division manager at the CERCI (Compagnie d'Etudes et de Réalisation de Cybernétique Industrielle), a subsidiary of Jeumont Schneider and then of SEMA. Didier Dhennin is an Engineer Arts & Métiers, with a diploma from ICG.

 Eric GRALL
 Head of Global Managed Services

 

Eric Grall, 48, was President and General Manager at HP with responsibility for outsourcing activities in Europe, Middle East and Africa.  Eric Grall has spent his professional career at HP in a number of roles related to outsourcing. He is a graduate from ENSIEG Grenoble and from the University of Brest.

 Winfried Holz
 CEO Germany and Central Europe

 

Winfried Holz has more than 20 years of experience in the IT sector. He began his career in 1984 at Siemens AG Germany, where he held a variety of management positions, including Vice President of Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme and President of International Operations at Siemens Medical Solutions. Following his position of Managing Director of Fujitsu Services GmbH, he was appointed CEO of TDS in November 2007. Winfried Holz has a degree in industrial engineering.

 Philippe MAREINE
 General Secretary

 

Philippe Mareine, 39, was manager in the French Treasury Department’s Inspection Générale des Finances unit and, previously, he was in charge of HR in the public accounts department of the French Ministry for the Budget. From 2005 to 2007, He was technical adviser in charge of employee relations and reform in the office of the French Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry. He worked for the French Tax Administration, first as Service Quality project manager and as head of the Strategy & Innovation department, after spending the first four years of his career in the Inspection Générale des Finances.He is a graduate from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale d’Administration.

 Francis MESTON
 Head of Global Systems Integration

 

Francis Meston, 49, comes from E.D.S French subsidiary where he had been appointed CEO since January 2002. In 1996, he joined AT Kearney as Vice President in charge of EMEA business transformation and strategy practices as well as M1A Global practice. He was previously Vice President of Gemini Consulting where he led the French operations, the EMEA Telecommunication practice and the EMEA business reengineering practice. Francis Meston is a graduate of Ecole Centrale Marseille and holds a MBA in Finance from Purdue.

 Diego Pavia Bardaji
 CEO Iberia

 

Diego Pavia has been CEO of Spain since 2002, and was previously in charge of a Global business unit in SchlumbergerSema.

 Hervé PAYAN
 Head of  Global Consulting

 

Hervé Payan, 43, comes from Steria where he was Group Consulting and Business Development Director. A graduate of the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris, Hervé began his career as a consultant at Arthur Andersen Management. In 1991, he moved to Singapore to work for BNP, a leading financial analyst. In 1993, he joined Capgemini as Manager in the Banking and Telecoms division. From 1997 to 2002, he was Director at the Paris office of consulting firm AT Kearney. Before joining Steria in March 2007, he was from mid 2005, Director of the Consulting business at EDS Consulting EMEA, where he led a team of 1,200 consultants in 12 countries.

 Rob Pols
 CEO Benelux

 

Rob Pols has built a considerable track record in the IT services and consultancy market place. Since 2005 he occupied the position of general manager and COO at Fujitsu Services in the Netherlands. Between 2003 and 2005 he was general manager of Adresco BV, an organisation specialised in interim management services. Previously, he was a Member of the ‘Raad van Bestuur’ at Syntegra – part of BT – and director of Syntegra/KPMG Consulting in France.

 Michel-Alain Proch
 Chief Financial Officer

 

Michel-Alain Proch joined Atos Origin in 2006 as Group Senior Vice-President responsible for Internal Audit and Risk Management. After six years spent at Deloitte & Touche, he held different management positions at Hermès, first in Internal Audit and Controlling and then as CFO for North and South America. Michel-Alain Proch is a graduate of l’Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Toulouse and holds a degree from Etudes Supérieures Comptables et Financières.

 Arnaud Ruffat
 CEO France and Morocco

 

Arnaud Ruffat has more than 20 years’ experience in IT services. He began his career with Bull in Argentina in 1985. In 1988, he joined Atos Origin, holding various management-level positions within the company, notably finance director and operations director. In 2003, he was appointed head of Atos Origin’s outsourcing business in France. In 2006, he was chosen to head Atos Origin in Italy, where he helped to turn the Group’s operations around.

 Jean-Marie Simon
 Head of Human Resources

 

Jean-Marie Simon was appointed as Human Resources director in 2007. Previously, he was HR Director France, Germany & Central Europe from 2005 to 2007. He held various management positions within Schlumberger, as Managing Director in R&D and production centers. He worked in Indonesia, as technical director for Asia, and in Norway and was before CIO for the oil sector of Schlumberger during three years.

 Keith Wilman
 CEO UK

 

Keith Wilman joined Atos Origin end 2006. With over 25 years in the information technology field, he joins from Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), where he was most recently President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CSC's European Group Northern Region (UK, Ireland and The Netherlands). Prior to joining CSC in 1997, Keith was managing director of Easams Ltd.

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